Rabbis Respond to the 1918 Spanish Influenza Epidemic

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

you okay so we are going to talk about about the rabbinic responses to the Spanish influenza of 1918 and some of you perhaps have seen the source booklet which I link to in the post and I'm going to be using that falling through it and they're trying to do it it's somewhat of a a a faster clip because of the because the time limitations which we have so we're going to start with of course for stage and you see that back in night in 1918 well as today many shows had to close and here you have Boston the Orthodox rules had to close because the same gu0 which we have today they're back then and in the next page you have the Cleveland Plain Dealer you'll see that if some things don't change it says towards the bottom of the second column it provides Jewish synagogues one acts global Avenue at cetera et cetera and the other was on Avenue we're visited by patrolmen Kapowski and ever ever and nine men were taken to central police station on a charge of violating the quarantine notwithstanding their pleas that they were worshiping so Jews have a long history of not not abiding by the rules necessarily which they are imposed now the question is what exactly is about bunting worked at the time the password here

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